Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Anybody know the story behind this?

At auction this past Sunday, I bought a scrapbook filled with postcards and a handful of other ephemera, among which was this decal:

The rest of the items in that section of the scrapbook were dated from 1948 to 1955, so there's a probable time frame for this piece, here, but I can't seem to find anything on "2-Spooks Selling Gas" or any variant on it, anywhere in google or the other search engines, so far.

If anybody knows somebody who has either a really good memory of Rapid City, S.D., or access to some historical archives and records, I'd love to know the story behind the naming of this business. Is it a ghost story, a pair of old, retired spies from the war days, or something extremely politically incorrect? What?

I'm all ears.Well, actually, I'm all boobs and butt, but that's not important right now...